Mateja Drnovšek
PhD

Business portrait of Mateja Drnovšek in the green atrium of the School of Economics and Business on a sunny day in June 2024

Department

CV

Mateja Drnovšek has been employed at the FELU since 1997. After receiving her PhD she participated to several international programs, such as executive program at Harvard Business School on participant centred learning. She has conducted research and consultancy projects related to entrepreneurship issues for government, such as evaluation of voucher system of consulting to SMEs, and have occasionally worked in entrepreneurship training programs for internationalized Slovenian companies, such as Sava Ltd and Telekom Ltd. Her research is immersed in cognitive and emotional aspects of entrepreneurship and their influence on formation of entrepreneurial intentions, new venture creation and overall entrepreneurial effectiveness. She has done several studies on female entrepreneurship in Slovenia. Her work has been published in journals such as Academy of Management Review, Baltic Management Journal, Economic and Business Review, Scandinavian Management Journal, Journal of Enterprising Culture, Small Business Economic, European Management Journal, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal and others.

Selected projects

  • Cardon, Melissa, Wincent, Joakim, Singh, Jagdip, Drnovšek, Mateja
    The Nature and Experience of Entrepreneurial Passion
    Academy of Management Review

  • Drnovšek, Mateja, Cardon, Melissa, Murnieks, Charles
    Collective Passion in Entrepreneurial Teams
    Understanding the entrepreneurial mind : opening the black box. Springer.

  • Drnovšek, Mateja
    Job creation process in a transition economy: An empirical investigation of
    Small Business Economics

  • Drnovšek, Mateja, Wincent, Joakim, Cardon, Melissa
    Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy and Business Start-up: Developing a Multi-Dimensional Definition
    International Journal of entrepreneurial behaviour and research